Leadership and Change: A Case Study of McFarland's Jim White

This case study analyzes the leadership of Jim White, the central figure in the film "McFarland." The assignment explores his leadership traits, including morality, sincerity, and the ability to adjust his style to meet the team's needs. It examines his motivational techniques, his ability to identify and nurture talent, and his strategies for overcoming obstacles. The analysis delves into how Jim White fostered a team spirit, built trust, and ultimately led his team to achieve championship goals. The study further discusses the leadership skills instrumental in the team's success, such as empathy, curiosity, and the ability to share success with the entire team. It concludes by evaluating whether Jim White was the right person to lead the team and how leadership theories explain his journey. The assignment provides a comprehensive understanding of the leadership principles demonstrated in the film, offering insights into effective coaching and team management.

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Table of Contents
Introduction............................................................................................................................ 2
Question 1.............................................................................................................................. 2
Question 2.............................................................................................................................. 3
Question 3.............................................................................................................................. 5
Question 4.............................................................................................................................. 6
Question 5.............................................................................................................................. 7
Conclusion............................................................................................................................. 8
References............................................................................................................................. 9

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Introduction
Leadership plays a vital role in achieving the targeted goal. The leadership majorly focuses
on the capability of the individual. It is the function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is
well communicated, building trust among the colleague as well as taking the effective action
to realize your own leadership potential. There is a different type of leadership style that
most of the leaders have adopted such as autocratic leadership, bureaucratic leadership,
democratic leadership, laissez-fair leadership and many more.
In the following part, there will be a detailed analysis of the leadership style of Jim white and
the manner he leads its team to achieve its targeted goal.
Question 1
The leadership traits that Jim white as being a coach has adopted which lead the team into
the championship stage and conquer the trophy, in the end, can be explained as follows:-
 MORALITY AND SINCERITY: - The example of morality which the coach named in
Jim White has shown that leader like him can put down his moral with full honesty
and willingness to keep up the good work from the new untrained students, his
quality of putting its full sincerity in making them at the top fighting with system odds,
rules & regulations so that one can get the top at the end and score what it wants to
achieve. Leader’s morality and sincerity towards its team show that what will be the
outcome after the efforts, Research work performed with giving them the positive
look, receipting the people what they want to gain (DuBois et al., 2015).
 INFORMATION SPREADER:- Leader like him showed how its teachings, methods to
play, techniques, and all research data about the opponent is spread in the team as
soon as possible in the audible and understandable form for the team. Actual, right,
affordable, accurate information has been spread by him in the whole movie was an
incredible trait for the development of the team.
 STYLE ADJUSTER: - He has done masters in this art he showed the perfect style of
how a leader can adjust his style or say his working culture and way of seeing things
in the future and present so that the team can be put up above all odds. He uses to
put his style of playing the game in the blood of the team member as the sole learner
of the art and knows not only how to play but to be on the top spot among all (Dyson,
2018).

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 OBSTACLE EVACUATOR: Very well known by him that there will be hundreds of
hurdles, obstacles, stones, bumps, etc. waiting in his team’s path. All the road map
has been planned by him to come out such bumps so that the team’s path comes on
a smooth ride. He very well knew the bumps and ways to get out of them without
affecting the team's spirit.
 INTELLIGENCE: - The best quality that Jim white possess in the movie is the
intelligence which has shown by him at every at most situations, First of all, his
thought of getting the middle-high school students and selecting the best out of the
lot that they want to grow but they don’t have the money, standards, life opportunities
to get into the game. His intelligence paid off how he tackled with the authorities,
sports personnel, Scholl personnel’s, parents of the students getting them together
for their child to play, then making adjustments in his schedules to get time to teach
them accordingly, at the end putting them in such order so that as a team they get
into the top and win the championships (YouTube, 2019).
Question 2
By saying that players “you guys are superhuman; there is nothing you can’t do with that
kind of strength and that kind of heart” this statement by itself says it all that one is a very
motivational speaker and putting its life out to help someone to conquer something their
respecting life. By Saying this one can judge that Jim has the quality of a very impulsive and
good leader is that being a positive motivator all it shows that how you are indulge in your
job and giving full heart to get the job done. The leader wants the under-motivated team
member who is underestimated and doesn’t know the way to get in the mainstream should
get into the actual mainstream. He wants the people who are undetonated underprivileged
should get in the mainstream challenging the mainstream people. He wants to tell them that
the actual strength they possess is very much in that vicinity that one can grow to the world
heights, their compassion towards the game will lead them to top, that they should get out of
the kind of heart and mind they have and get indulge in the mainstream crowd or player by
increasing the way they are thinking in the way today.
Jim white always showed the effective leaders quality in the whole film some can be told
here as:-

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 He is always in respecting its team members and students in saying that what they
want to listen will not be in seen but they have to make their way out. He was always
in accepting the new ideas in broadening the way how people think about the game.
 Jim was happy with the sources he got in the movie like the people, etc. so that he
has developed in the frame so. He had in his mind to help the needy people or say
the talent which didn’t get the way or say the path to disclose the talent they possess
in the middle of anything.
 Jim was very much in building the trust among the team member say the students of
the team who want to play in the mainstream. He was in the state that the member or
say the student wad in total belied of the Jim White that he has done the justice with
the whole team and stuff they possess.
 Jim has always in the film has shown that what he is what he wants in the life say by
simply saying who he is and what he wants which has shown the transparency in the
world. He is always in the known state that he was ready to accept the changes in
the future world, and was ready to accept any mistake occurred by him in recruiting
or say strategy planning in the future.
 The risk taken by Jim in the movie is commendable as he is into taking the risk in the
uphold and in front he is very daring and very bold personnel which help the recruited
staff that they will come to know the actual reality hoe people work.
 Jim is the passionate guy as a coach as a mentor to the underprivileged students to
get trained and outperform in the mainstream his passion towards the work of being
a coach led him to do his job with full sincerity and dedication (Özbağ, 2016).
Question 3
 The leadership skills which were instrumental for the team to achieve their goals can
be explained as below:
 Jim White has the ability to empathize with the teammates which help them to keep
together in a team spirit, bonding development, trust of the team gets increased.
 Curiosity possessed by Jim in the movie for finding ways to do better and cut down
running ways to do better in the future.
 Strengths recognized by him in the new students of high school and curving them
into professionals for getting a better future. Jim has the ability to get the strengths in
his eyes of the students how actually possess that and then converting the same in
the output of positive energy and putting them together to get into a team (Fletcher,
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 Success was always spread or say shared with whole team members by Jim white in
the movie as he always took the initiative to spread the success among the team
members as it was received. Alone credit was not the thing in the dictionary of Jim
white sharing the success among the team is the most of all thing. It is not always
directing the success in one path but it’s always spreading the success to the team.
 Solving the open questions from the teammates which are aspiring ones so that the
queries can be solved in hand to hand situation, this will boost the morale of the team
as a whole as their voices will be heard and appropriate actions to be taken can be
taken in their hand in hand without disturbing the regular flow of success of team
members. Asking freely helps team members to remain in the mainstream.
 Detachment policy should also to be kept in mind of a coach as he should not get
into the personal touch with the members of the team as then in that case no strong
decisions can be attained in such cases (Mumford et al., 2017).
Question 4
In my opinion Jim white was the right person to lead the team of new anticipators who all are
having the talent to show the world who they are and what can be done out from them in
future so he is the right man who has the urge in his inside also and the enthusiasm to train
such underprivileged students who all are having what the actual sport and teamwork wants
out of them. From starting of the movie when he spotted the guys who have the ability to
play game but were not in the right path, not in the right mood, not with the right guidance,
no support was with them like administration dint recognize them eve so with his skill of
reading people or say judging the good ones out of the lot made the plan and the cream was
taken out from the rest of the cake or in simple senses the deserving ones who can win
championship were taken out and put in the right direction.
He has the skill of putting a sense of faith and hope among a whole lot of students that they
can conquer or say achieve in life what they wanted to achieve. He worked as a great
motivational speaker for the students by putting the zeal of doing something very big in their
life and letting them know that they are nothing if they will be in the mob who leads the
simple life in the whole living species.
Visions and missions created by Jim were perfectly executed by him in the movie for uplifting
the whole team, not for a single individual player. Visions were set in the path where
missions can be conquered in a perfect sequence.

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Patience level inside Jim White is what is on top of his style of thinking and looking things.
He acted as a good strategist in the movie putting all odds in a line with creating a
breakpoint among them. Forgiving nature of it’s helped the team to grow in the movie as he
wants to spread the whole of its knowledge regarding the game among students.
According to the analysis he is the perfect person for the team as a coach in the future
course of actions as he is the man with all study work, all data of the sport, enthusiasm is
full-on, honesty to the work given, zeal of conquering the world of sport, confidence of
making the coals into diamonds as they move in the lifetime (YouTube, 2019).
Question 5
There are some theories from which can be proved how the leadership journey of Jim White
can be explained here:-
 EMPLOYEE AND PRODUCTION ORIENTED LEADERSHIP
According to employee behavioral leadership theory here represent that the leader
has a focus on the relations with the team members. Here leaders are always into
the personnel needs of the employees and try to be empathetic in the sense that they
are very much concerned with the personal needs. Here Jim White also sometimes
follow the same path by entering into the family matters of the students and helped in
solving such situations and talked to the parents of such students and indulge with
them (Offermann and Coats, 2018).
 RELATIONS ORIENTED LEADERSHIP
This kind of theory focuses on enhancing the faith and overall confidence in the
leader which will lead them to develop or say enhance their couriers in future with
emphasizing on the role of communication in the teamwork, by putting down the
inspirational thoughts among them and applauding their work for the team and
rewarding them with any gift or say any reward in cash or kind to keep thought in
their minds that they are being respected as a team member in the team. The theory
says that the more the leader indulge in the personal life’s of the team members the
more they will bring in the actual real output as a whole. Here in the movie Jim White
do the same in a movie he got indulge in the family members and matters of the
students to give them the personal touch and building a sense of faith and empathy
in them as a whole. By rewarding and applauding those on the achievements gained
by a single member or say a player of the team in front of everyone developed the

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sense of importance given by the coach in the whole lot and encouraging them to
outperform the next time (Blomme, Kodden and Beasley-Suffolk, 2015).
 TRAIT THEORY
Here this theory works on the grounds that the leader’s personal qualities or the key
factors of his personality that works for the success of the team as a whole. It
revolves around the thought that abilities like of supervision of the thought which has
to be build up in the future with an outing in the intelligence of the leader to convert
into a successful thought with an initiative to make the things happen in the better
way and the positive way. Coach also does the same thing by putting down the
thoughts of its intelligence and with its quality of supervising them and converting
them into reality and initiative to the same in front of the very world. By putting in the
seed of maturity among the people of its team to do better and perform at the final
show so that the output which was demanded can be achieved (Nawaz and Khan,
2016).
Conclusion
From the above analysis, it can be concluded that the managing team is one of the tasks for
the individual. The leaders play an essential role in leading their team more efficiently. Jim
White also played great in leading its team. He has passionate about his work and supports
others to achieve the targeted goal. He treated as the right person to lead its team and able
to achieve success in an effective manner. Therefore, it inspires others also to adopt such a
leadership style and achieve its targeted goal more efficiently and effectively.

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